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- There's a special kind of fat that kids have more of.
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55 degrees in the summer feels colder than 55 degrees in the winter. And 55 degrees as an adult likely feels colder than 55 degrees as a kid. But it’s not just a feeling. It all has to do with how our bodies use fat - specifically brown fat, a lesser-known type of fat that can produce roughly 300 times more heat than any other tissue in the body.
Brown fat isn’t the type of fat that adds to our weight (that’s white fat). Brown fat has the sole purpose of being burnt for heating the body, and it’s extremely effective at that. It only appears in specific parts of the body: around the neck, spine, heart, and kidneys. (It clumps around major blood vessels, in order to warm the blood as it passes through the body.)
But brown fat is temporary and can adapt to pressure in a similar way to muscles. Check out the latest Vox video to learn more!
Note: The headline on this piece has been updated.
Previous headline: Why you get colder as you get older
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This is the first of a series of videos coming every Tuesday in March, answering questions big and small about the human body. From sight to sound to hormones, subscribe to see more about the weird stuff inside of us. Thanks for watching!
Have y’all considered talking about disabled history, or present findings? I’m a researcher, and it’d be awesome to work with y’all in producing some work.
I tried finding your guy’s contact info, and I got a bit lost. Hope y’all are doing well!
Every Tuesday in March. 🤔 Yall shud just say this is the first of 4 videos.
Why can't you guys cite your sources in the video description... some of us like to read the studies.
Great
And here I've been thinkin' for _all_ these years, that all of the collectively combined hot farts floating around down there, were what was keepin' them warmer than the rest of us?! Well, that & the fact that they NEVER, _EVER_ stop moving! They're always wiggling around & stinkin up the place, right?! 🤣🤣🤣💀💀
You get colder as you get older because it rhymes.
Also, the cold gets stronger, as the days get longer.
Flex you were early enough to see that name for the video
So if you go into a freezer then you'll grow quicker?
we will walk....so much slower (any of yall know "oh ms believer"? lol)
thanks for the tl:dr
I recently turned 70 and am very healthy. As a kid and teen I used to run around in the cold with tee shirts and shorts. That slowly went to the wayside over time. I gained a lot of weight in my 40's and 50's and was always warm. Then I permanently lost over 100 pounds and for a couple of years always felt cold but now it's back to normal. Very informative video. Thanks!
Liar
The only way to 'permanently' lose 100 pounds is to get your legs amputated. No guarantees you won't start to pig out on McDonalds if you get dementia and you keep forgetting that you already ate.
@Zaydan Alfariz average lifespan is 72 years globally meaning most people do in fact live that long
Happy Birthday Nelson!
I'm currently 17, I am from Finland, and I can easily go out in -15C weather for prolonged amounts of time in just a hoodie without freezing. Until I saw this video, I had no idea why I could do this. I guess I've just trained enough!
It’s been in the low 20s all week around here, thought me building up a tolerance to the cold was just in my head but it’s cool to know there’s a scientific explanation of why it’s happening.
@Zaydan Alfariz i think gradually decreasing the amount of clothes you have to wear just to be comfy is better than doing it right away. You dont wanna make yourself sick--athletes dont run a marathon right away.
Dude my thoughts exactly!!! I’ve postulated some explanation to this before to my friends and nobody believed me.
*"If you remember anything from Biology class, you might know that 'Mitochondria are the Powerhouse of the cell."*
I am a Neurosurgeon and that's also the only thing I remember from Biology class.
And most people, including me, retains that info because of memes.
I have an astonishing memory for the things I learned in biology in high school. Maybe I should have gone into medicine.
This coming out right when my dad is complaining about how cold it is and I feel hot
Does he have lack of some vitamins, iron, or something else? Might affect.
@@McSlobo Nope, pretty healthy. He’s just grown up his entire life in hot climates so he’s used to the heat more than the cold lol
This explains a lot. Like how I feel colder in my mid-30s compared to when I was younger (used to never year jackets). Also explains why people from cold climate can tolerate the cold better than people from warm climate.
It’s interesting that I see some opposite cases around me lol. My friends who lived in cold climate have less cold weather tolerant than those who came from warmer climates (including me)
@@Sirawxy I've never live south of the Mason-Dixon line and I can never acclimate to winter weather.
This explains why I never used to get cold. Born and raised in Chicago winters, my legs feel nothing. But after living in LA and Miami for 7 year I'm starting to feel the chill at 30 degrees, I'm an embarrassment to my family
Now I know why when I would play outside sometimes my mom would ask me,"Aren't you cold and don't you need a jacket?" I never understood why she would ask this so often.
As someone who somehow feels wayyy colder than everyone else and is also a teen, I only really have one thing to say.
YOU'RE TELLING ME IT GETS WORSE ?
As someone who's about to hit mid 20's, I only really have one thing to say.
YES IT DOES!
AHAHAHAHAHAHHA you're about to wear jacket all the time😭
You might have low thyroid. If you have other symptoms like tiredness, depression, higher weight, aches and cramps talk to your doctor. Also if you instead have nervousness, irritability, sweating (which could cause the cold) you might have insulin issues.
Im in the same boat
@Zaydan Alfariz Thanks for sharing?
'mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell' I dont think even dimentia will make me forget that ever..
The internet lol
I don’t know what you’ve done to the sound processing on this video but the speech was incredibly clear. I have auditory processing disorder and this was actually a pleasure to listen to. Every word was immediately intelligible.
Miles better than some of the garbled stuff Vox/Polygon has been putting out lately.
Wow, I just realised that I was being rude to my 76 yo father since a few months saying that he feels cold all the time when the world doesn't.
Gotta share this video with him and politely apologize.
Nice that today is his birthday 🎉
❤❤❤
Congratulations to him!
I remember as a child I wouldn’t even need gloves to play in the snow, my hands would stay reasonably warm. Now if the temp in my house drops below 20°C then im freezing and shivering violently!
Point in case: you have stopped moving your body as much compared to when you were a kid. Start moving(exercises, walks, swimming) and you will feel much more comfortable
Mystery is solved. I remember being annoyed at my mom for forcing me to wear think layers of clothes even though I wasn't feeling cold, but now that I grew up I get cold so easily and wonder how I didn't get cold back then
I'm almost 40 years old, and I notice that I get colder a lot faster than I did when I was younger. But, with this being said, it still feels like a sauna in my grandparents house most time. This explains a lot.
For two years in highschool I committed to losing weight by skipping the bus and walking/jogging everywhere. It was Wisconsin, and it got really cold. I remember that over time I built up a tolerance and started having to stop and put my coat in my backpack because I was so warm, despite it being 20 F.
Then I went to bootcamp, spent time in South Carolina, and upon coming home for Christmas I had to put on 3 layers to stop from shivering all over. I thought it was just me losing my tolerance, but it looks like I unintentionally lost the wrong sort of weight! That's so funny to me.
I actually handle the cold better now as an adult than I did as a kid. Partly this is because I was quite thin until I was a teenager. I also hated the cold, being used to the normally hot weather of Mississippi. Nobody had to tell me to put a jacket on until I was in high school, when started to "fill out" and acquire a taste for colder temperatures. Now winter is my favorite time of year, and I regret that it's coming to an end as I write this (it's 84 degrees here today)
That's consistent with my observations also.
This definitely explains why I'm often times able to chill in -5 degrees in a hoodie while my parents were shivering in heavy coats
doesn’t explain how one of the teachers back in highschool was handling a thick winter coat in a room that was near 80 degrees
@@tacticallemon7518 probably anemic
Explains why after living 20 years in Australia, I went back home to my village in Scotland and the cold was unbearable compared to when I grew up there.
Amazing video. I always felt like I would sort of “adapt” to the cold as the winter went on, but never had a realistic explanation as to how this was possible. That was a mystery I never knew how to solve or where to start researching. Now I know
I have always hated as a teenager when I go out and my mom made me wear a jacket because I didn't feel cold. Guess there was a reason for it.
I learn much more in these 5 minutes than in an entire month worth of biology lessons in my school.
At first I thought the title meant that people lose their childhood warmth as they got older😳😂
Is this why our grandparents are so cool?
Thank you! Ive always wondered about this! I appreciate how direct your videos are
This video answered so many questions I didn't know I had!
Friendly advice from an audio engineer: I love your content, but something went wrong with the audio on this video. Move the mic at least 3-4 inches away from the mouth of whoever does voiceover. Then in post, don't compress it so hard. Just turn up the audio instead and put a limiter on to catch the peaks if they're too loud.
This was actually really cool I enjoyed this vid quite a bit. Keep it up!
This makes sense. I lived in Alaska for 8 years where if it was above freezing it was tshirt weather and now that i've lived in texas for just as long i can bear the heat much better but now i am alot colder in warmer temps. So this makes alot of sense.
This is soo true. Now I can prove my mom that I was not acting cool and pretending that I don't feel cold.
This explains why I am cold all the time. My parents migrated to the USA from Mexico City in 2001; they did not know how cold it could get in Nebraska, so raising a baby was quite difficult. I consider myself the experiment, baby, because in the winter, my parents would wrap me up in a blanket after a blanket. I got so sick to the point that I was taken to the hospital on multiple occasions. My mother felt like she was the worst because I kept getting sick. I think this explains why I get cold very easily even as a teenager. I am now 20, and my body is slowly adapting to deal with the cold.
Vox really stepped up their video quality. Great work as always Edward.
Looking forward for this series of videos.
Great information!! Thanks for the video.
You always learn something new everyday on the interwebs. Really nice.
This video answered so many questions I had and was so well done!!
I always wondered why 50f in spring felt nice and warm compared to 50f in fall. Now I've got a good explanation and I learned something
Oh my god. In Japan we have an old saying “kids are children of the wind 子どもは風の子” basically meaning that kids can handle any cold.
Which is why some schools enforce shorts for winter uniform. We’d do phsyical ed outside and if we’re cold, the adults would tell us to just huddle to warm up, while they wore long sleeves. I used to say this was abuse from time when they didn’t have western science and the adults just wanted all the cloth for themselves.
turns out the saying was true…
I thought that the only reason the temperatures feel different is because of getting used to being cold, a warm temp feels much warmer than if you are used to the warm and it turns cold. I'm sure that is also a reason, but I had no idea there was a physical reason for this!
Great video !! I never knew that ! I love this guys videos!
Imma go tell my grandma as she is always cold 😂
finally i get it!
personally, -10 is very warm for me in winter, now I know why.
thank you!
i always wondered about this... this explains a lot, thanks!
This is interesting, thanks.
Also, I found the music and the little drum sound effect fun.
Awsome video :D Concept is great, visuals too, and story is catching. Great Job.
p.s.: I like your previous thumbnail that had a blue background much more, I am not sure if I understand new one with the purple background.
This is not just life changing but IDENTITY changing!!
This is so well done!
This really does explain a lot.
There's a kind of cold from adults to kids called "I'm feeling you're cold"
I experienced the exact opposite, up to the age of 53 I couldn't handle the cold: in winter electric blankets, multiple blankets, socks, long-sleeved pyjamas and a beanie were the norm, then, from one week to the next, it changed, I experienced hot flushes etc. - some say it was the onset of MENopause.
Always learning. Thank you
It's amazing how such fundamental parts of the body aren't known to most people. Ya learn something new everyday
When I was a teen I loved Winter now I absolutely hate it. Like I can’t even tolerate going outside
thanks a lot Vox (Well done)♥️
So interesting, thank you for sharing.
Good topic, Edward.
I'm still a kid at heart. That must explain why I wear shorts year 'round while others are bundled in an jackets and an extra layer underneath
Yes! I always said this! As soon as I turned 20, I was already reaching for the coat and umbrella
Frick, I don’t know how I could get any colder, I’m a child! A CHILD!!!
When fall hits, I always spend a few weeks intentionally acclimating to the cold by wearing less clothes than feels comfortable and taking swims late in the year. Then, by the time winter really hits, I feel much more comfortable than I think I would have (and anecdotally, more comfortable than most other people in winter).
Very cool thumbnail, Vox. Cudos to the graphic designer! 💙
A couple of my partners are going through menopause, and we thus prefer different (and varying) temperatures. I'd love a video about what causes the hot flashes.
The South African here does not understand 13°C being warm enough for shorts and a T shirt.
Around 20°C is starting to need the warm clothing.
I remember being 18 and never feeling cold when everyone around me did
I knew it! So, my mom was always wrong when she yelled I had to wear a jacket when going outside!
I wish they explained more about why it’s “hard to dose cold”.
Fascinating!
I really started noticing this over the last couple years. I never felt as cold as I have lately even tho the winters keep getting more and more mild because of climate change.
Why this is not explained at school?!
Thanks a lot!
One of the folks I follow on twitter had moved from New York to California and went home for a visit with family recently and noticed how unsuited he was to New York’s winters recently. Apparently this explains why, lol.
I was wondering about this! I work as a nanny and the number of times the kids insist they don't need a jacket or socks has always astounded me.
Love the ending song of the video haha
This explains why I sweat so much even though it doesn't feel hot for me while everyone else don't.
Wow! Very interesting 😮
I want to be a kid again so that all my worries go away and moreover I would rather go back to the 90's than being in the present.
I noticed when I turned about 17 or 18 that I seemed much colder in the winters and every winter since than I did when I was a stereotypical middle school boy who didn't need a coat. Very satisfying to hear there's an actual explanation for this
Any chance of doing a follow-up video about athletes or active people taking ice baths or cryo freezes?
THANKS.
I definitely see my resting heart rate improve (a very shallow proxy parameter of heart health) with exercise during colder weather. I assume it is especially so during sleep times. I thought it's just the heart having to pump more frequently to absorb heat and reject it at a higher rate - these might be related (anecdotal at best)
So.. exercise in the winter is doubly good, nice. 🙂
Vox is just too good
I love the science here but I have been very sensitive to cold my entire life. Its largely because I have mostly lived in states and cities with harsh winters where I have to commute to school or work on public transportation and homes weren't very well heated. As a child my bestfriend was my hoodie with the hood on indoors and I'm still the same way.
There are always exceptions
Huh. I immigrated to Canada as a middle-schooler from Mexico and was completely appaled by the cold. I guess this explains why Im used to it now.
Finally they solved this. I just sent it to my family who have annoyed me for decades telling me to put on something when they felt cold!
I’m confused, 55 F is freezing. So I then assumed you were talking about Celsius. But 55 Celsius is 131 F, which is pretty hot. Do people not on the West coast really consider the 50s, 60s, and 70s hot?
My mom would be freezing and I’d be like “it’s hot in here??”
For me it's been oddly the opposite, I'm 26 and I'm way less cold outside now than I used to be. 10 years ago not even a puffer jacket was enough for me , although back then I was 60kg whereas now I'm 86kg :)
So interesting! I wonder if there's any research into the long-term health outcomes of people in colder versus warmer climates, given the impacts oft brown fact in diabetes, etc (obviously controlling for, like, everything else).
Fascinating
😮 cool thank you!
My kids run warm in the winter. I’m overweight, so I don’t need to bundle up too much either but I always worried about my kids. And now I know why. Course we live in Texas, so the winters rarely get very cold.
I built up my cold tolerance over the last 5 years. Now I know how 🙂
I’m sick of freezing. I am 26 and when I turned 25 I started getting way way colder than normal, even in nice warm weather a slight breeze is enough to make me shiver. It’s really starting to p1$$ me off.
When I was little I'd sweat a lot and my parents would stick a towel down my back to catch the sweat. I saw other little kids with towels too. Children get hot very easily so they should never wear as many layers as adults. As an adult I am more cold tolerant than most other people I know. When they ask me if I'm cold, I'd answer that yeah I feel a little bit cold but that's very comfortable to me. Cold is something you can get used to as long as it's not so cold that you get sick. Then you don't need to wear as much clothes, which is just annoying.
It is amazing how body is equipped with all the tiny little things.. and every functions are for survival..
I was freezing all the time as a kid, and am much warmer now. My parents would never be as cold as I. Not until they became elderly and the cold started to go through them, by which time i was an adult and don’t feel the cold the same. I still think kids feel the cold more than adults.
Consider adding even more compression and low frequency resonance to your narration audio /s
Classic Vox, with audio all over the place...
I have Reynaud's so I'm always cold (even in hot weather, I take a while to warm up overall, and my hands and feet usually stay cold). But even so, as a kid I used to run around in shorts and short-sleeved t-shirt for soccer games in the rain, and be okay until I stopped running for in-between breaks. Nowadays, I'm cold at 68 degrees when walking while wearing leggins, jeans, two layers of shirts and a jacket.
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I'd happily pop a mirabegron pill however often in order to stop having my feet quite literally go numb at not-even-60 degrees. It's proven unsafe for me to even just walk uneven surfaces when I can't feel the ground sufficiently in my shoes, especially thicker ones like boots in winter. : /
Good to know.
I love these Vox biology related videos